Posted 4 years ago on Nov. 22, 2012, 9:12 a.m. EST by therising
(6643)
This content is user submitted and not an official statement

The message of the real reason behind Walmart strikes is breaking through to capture the attention of mainstream press and the general public! There is something about this Walmart strike that resonates with people.... That's bad news for the corporate schmucks that are trying to hold the line and keep this issue out of the public eye..

The great musician Rodriguez once asked "how many times can you plant flowers in this cartoon world?" Some days I feel that frustration. But you know what? I think we're going to win this. As Martin King said so eloquently: truth crushed to earth rises up." We can do this. Humanity can unify and rise above this corporate machine.

Oh, I'm here to stay. I'm in this for the long haul my friend. We Americans and citizens of the world need to carry on the work started in Zuccotti Park, work that was done by people who come from a long tradition of freedom fighters. We have only just begun to push back against the inhuman corporate machine. As MLK once said: "Truth crushed to earth rises up." It's time for humanity to rise.

Interesting. I tend to really really dislike Carol Costello, but thanks for opening my mind to another side of her. LOL. And, the WalMart guy doesn't look too convinced about anything he is saying in support of his company. Must suck to be on the wrong side.

Eating the organic stuff is more expensive. But I honestly dont agree that low wages mean you have to eat unhealthy. It matters if its a priority.

Many people in this country simply dont like healthy food. Water is cheaper than cola. Everyone knows McDonalds is disgusting, but the lines are always packed. Grocery stores have entire isles of chips and pop. Its incredible.

I like McDonald's coffee, lolol. You make a point, hchc, as usual, but healthy foods are more expensive. Fresh fruit, fresh vegetables and fresh meat and fish cost a lot more than the crap that is prepared already. Just sayin'. If you have a family to feed on $15/hour you aren't eating many fresh blueberries.

There's a lethargy upon the populace. It's happening with our youth in Australia.

Always seeking the easiest "out" with anything, including food prep or consumption. No time to actually plan a menu for the week.

Having lived in very isolated situations, where you can only get to a food store once a month, I know the economics of eating, if not eating healthier.

I still like corned beef, which I know is not particularly healthy, but if I combine it with seeded mustard, or mustard pickles, it's okay to eat, and very tasty.

I can get three solid meals out of 200 grams (maybe half a pound) of lean beef mince. It's all about knowing what to do with it.

Mass-marketing and the general malaise/lethargy mentioned above is a lot to do with the obesity factor. Sugared drinks being the main culprit. I simply never do soda, unless to mix with spirit drinks, and that's a rare treat for me these days.

Lethargy? Ummm - yeah - I suppose - or depression? Depression can be very lethargic.

Anyway it also has to do with - is your time - your time? Or is your time dictated by what is left over from putting in your time for someone else?

Me when I was working - especially the last twelve years while becoming increasingly sick - I got home and I fell over - then I got up and went to work again. Ready to heat meals were a blessing in my eyes at the time - pop em in the oven set the timer and take a nap - get up and eat when the timer goes off and then go to bed.

Maybe I was at fault ( no maybes? ) or it could also be society in which I live. No standards of health placed on food that is put out for sale. No sane standards put on how many hours an individual can be made to work - coupled by no sane standard of a living wage that then forces individuals to work themselves to death - just to sleep under some sort of roof.

A state of unconsciousness resembling deep sleep. 3. The state or quality of dullness, prolonged sleepiness, sluggishness, or serious drowsiness. Compare "stupor" 4. a lowered level of consciousness, marked by listlessness, drowsiness, and apathy.

a condition of indifference.

Importantly, the condition of lethargy can be directly influenced by what we consume. Notably, aspartame, found in "sugar-free" products, like chewing gum, soft drinks, burger buns. Also, flourine/flouride added to drinking water (on the premise of preventing tooth decay) is known to limit creativity, and promote lethargy.

The amount of "happy meals" purchased for children who don't even eat them, but want the free toy/status symbol of eating at maccas, astounds me. My son hates the burgers. I don't blame him. Bland has found a new meaning.

One of my nephews has a passing relation ship with food. Basically he by passes it. When I was his age - if a hot rock was placed on the table - it was fought over. No hot rocks are not chewed - just sucked on. {:-])

Yeah those little buzzing bastards have - Got - to be quick - The flies as well.............Ha ha...............nah I never really fought with my siblings over food...........I was on the last to arrive list ( huge disadvantage )...............

They are making their own life choices about how they eat. They could eat a very nutritious meal that consist of low fat meat and a salad, cheaper than what they are paying for their doughnuts, greasy potato chips, candy bars, etc

Poor eating habits, leads to obesity, you numbskul. These clowns could eat good nutritious meals cheaper than the crap they are eating now like (sugar doughnuts, greasy chips, candy bars, etc) Got it now????, I doubt it

Ok I get it now, so if I make around 15.00 per hour I am going to eat more nutritious meals than I would if I was only making 8.00 per hour??? NOT You continue to blame an organization for individuals that do not eat healthy foods.

Right, very good, because $15.00 is no picnic to live on either. And, can you imagine purchasing food on $8 per hour! My goodness, what a nightmare.

It is these corporations that have bought our government in order to control how our economic system is set up to benefit the wealthy and, umm, corporations at the expense of everyone else. So, yeah, I blame them.

I am living on 15.00 per hour right now and not doing to bad. I live in the Country (about two hundred miles from a major city) and Country life to me I think is less costly to someone that lives in or near a city.

I have had 8.00 an hour jobs in the past and I weighed 150.00 lbs. but I chose and still choose to eat healthier type meals. Just because someone is making less money does not mean that they have to eat junk. Salads, low fat meats, do not cost anymore than the junk they are probably eating

This is called an ad hominem. It's a logical fallacy where you attack a person instead of her argument. Look it up :) Usually people use ad hominems because they don't have any good reasons for their position.

PS - Your ad hominem appears more desperate than most. Are you a member of the Walton family that has as much wealth as the poorest 40% of American citizens combined? If so, how do you reconcile holding that much wealth while at the same time paying the majority of your workers less than a living wage? Also, how do you explain that 80% of your workforce is on some kind of public assistance so they can feed their families and have health care? (Remember, your managers keep public assistance fliers well stocked in the break rooms). How do you sleep at night knowing you're forcing average American taxpayers to pay your employees health costs and provide them with assistance for food and housing? Look up "living wage" sometime.

What will you and the rest of the Walton family chat about over Thanksgiving while many around the country are talking about how unfair your company is to its workers?

Actually the five Walmart family members that have as much money as the poorest 40% of all Americans combined really pretty much inherited their wealth. They may go to the office and they may pay some really conniving executives but they didn't start the fire and they really can't take credit for pulling themselves up by their bootstraps :-)

Over 50% of the wealth in America is held by the wealthiest 1%. And 90% of that is INHERITED. The 5 Walton's hold as much wealth as the poorest 40% of Americans combined. And most of this was INHERITED.

Maybe if you're a good boy then your Grandma will leave you something. Would that make you feel better if someone "lined your pockets" rather than you getting off the couch and doing it your self????????

I understood what you wrote and so what if someone inherits a fortune. Does that mean that they have to share it with everyone else? no. I do not like walmart at all but I also do not condemn someone that has more wealth than me either.

You missed the point. You said, "So what if someone inherits a fortune." I don't much care about "someone" inheriting a fortune either. What I'm talking about is the fact that the wealth of America is concentrated in the hands of a very few and the gap is widening. And while so many of those folks preach about pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, the fact is that 90% of those in the top 1% INHERITED their wealth. 90% dude. That's not just "someone". That's just about all of them. Do you think it's healthy that 5 members of the Walton family have as much money as the poorest 40% of the American public combined? 5 people have as much as 120,000,000 people. !!!!!!

Sorry but that is where I have a different view on it. Inheritance is a "gift" from one person to another. And depending on the size of the gift it can also trickle down to other siblings, etc as well. Why put a higher tax on that and what do you think Uncle Sam is going to do with it??? More than likely the Gov is going to misuse the money like they do with everything else.

Trickle down is a farce. Therich never trickle anything down. Money naturally flows up! The people with little money always spend it all. The wealthy (driven by greed) are always looking to suck up the money ofthe lower income class.

Unearned income should be taxed at a higher rate. More workers earned income should be exempt from tax!

And the revenue increase from taxing the wealthy inherited wealth WILL go to cutting workers income tax.

I still somewhat disagree and think that "inherited money" should not be taxed higher that regular tax because the majority of it goes back into the economy anyways. I do agree with you on one thing and that is a person that grew up rather poor and comes into money, they tend to spend it (or get rid of it faster) than someone that has money

How do you know that they are NOT working at all. The question was asked on my last comment but you never replied. If I won the lotto and quit my job would I then be considered to be a 1% also ???? Even though I worked all my life???

If you won the lotto you would be taxed up the ass! They win the inheritance lotto and should be taxed up the ass. Soak those lazy greedy do nothing takers!

And I did answer your question as to how I know they ain't working. I said they AIN'T working! You just don't like my answer! I ain't gotta prove they ain't. It is well known they ain't. Period! Certainly they don't deserve the inheritance without being taxed up the ass!

Taxing interpersonal exchange is immoral. Such as, taxing you for giving your kids money. Taxing business transactions such as payroll and purchases, investment gains, ect, is justifiable.

Should we begin taxing allowances given to kids for doing house chores?

How about when your give you kid a car as a graduation present, is that moral?

The only reason you feel the inheritance tax is justified is your discriminatory attitude toward a certain class. I of all people have no sympathy for the wealthy but the morality of my actions and my approach has nothing to do with the other person(s) in a scenario, it has to do with the kind of person I am. Tax the rich for the debt they ran up, sure, but taxing as a form of aggression or discrimination has no moral justification.

Again I will say that I am no fan of Walmart but how do you know that the inheritors of Mr Walton's fortune are setting on their asses and not working??? They may well be working and you not knowing it. So what if they are not working

LMAO, hard work. When did riding on yachts become hard work? Yachts paid for by the blood sweat and tears of people that do the actual work and many of who still can't make ends meet. Poor poor rich white folks ;.-(

Taxing the poor is immoral. Taxing the wealthy inheritance is REQUIRED, in order to address the unhealthy concentration of wealth.

I agree taxing as a form of aggression is wrong. That is why I do not propose or support that. You don't speak for me! Your suggestion regarding my motivations are absolutely wrong and designed to malign my correct position in support of working class. Weak and dishonest is how I would describe that personal attack.

The ridiculous false comparison to allowance & gifts is just a weak attempt at obfuscation. An unrelated distraction. Smart peoplewill see through that non sense.

Support workers! cut their taxes, raise taxes on the wealthy and use that revenue to cut the income tax on the worker.

Take your BS propaganda somewhere else. Wallmart has killed much of the competition because the competition was local small business. So take your BS about working somewhere else and shove it where the sun don't shine.